Unsung
evoked the suppressed voices of women in Philadelphia’s Callowhill
neighborhood, from its earliest days to the present moment. A
collaboration with video artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, we
created a timeline in image and sound, interweaving various narratives
struck or buried from “official” histories: an 18th-century prostitute,
the wife of an Irish railroad worker, an undocumented immigrant stuck in
a cycle of dependency. The immersive installation included collectively improvised
and interpreted recordings by the vocalists, layers of compositions
derived entirely from their voices, audio from live streams of the local
police precinct, and activated harmonic standing waves and nodes.

Over
1,200 visitors walked through the tunnel beneath the Reading Viaduct
for this one-night-only public art event. Commissioned by the American
Composer’s Forum, the Mural Arts Project, and the Rail Park.